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June and July courses in Bayesian statistics. A full list of workshops in doing Bayesian data analysis is here. Upcoming workshops include these:2015 June 1 - 5. Five-day course: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, at Stats Camp, Dallas, Texas.2015 June 15-1...

In a recent editorial [here], the journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology has banned the null hypothesis significance testing procedure (NHSTP). "We hope and anticipate that banning the NHSTP will have the effect of increasing the quality of submit...

For questions like yours -- I've got variable Y that I want to predict from variables X1, X2, etc.; What should I do? -- the best answer is usually informed by background knowledge of the domain. Generic models, like multiple linear regression, don't a...

XKCD today is about p values (see image at right). I think that what XKCD is pointing out is not so much a problem with p values as with strongly institutionalized publication thresholds and the ritual of mindless statistics, as Gigerenzer would say. ...

The goal of Chapter 2 is to introduce the conceptual framework of Bayesian data analysis. Bayesian data analysis has two foundational ideas. The first idea is that Bayesian inference is reallocation of credibility across possibilities. The second found...

The goal of Chapter 2 is to introduce the conceptual framework of Bayesian data analysis. Bayesian data analysis has two foundational ideas. The first idea is that Bayesian inference is reallocation of credibility across possibilities. The second found...

An emailer asks about how to specify an informed prior in JAGS/BUGS. Here are some condensed excerpts of the question and my reply. Of course, while the discussion here refers to JAGS/BUGS, the same considerations apply to Stan.Dear Prof. Kruschke,&nbs...